There are still plenty of reasons to be optimistic about Ukraine’s future, according to Institute of World Policy Director Alyona Getmanchuk, who has penned an analysis on the topic for the Carnegie Moscow Center.

How can relations between Ukraine and the European Union stay in good shape until the president of Ukraine (probably a new one) will be ready to sign an Association Agreement and make every effort to implement it? Alyona Getmanchuk, director of the Institute of World Policy in Kyiv, tackles this question in a op-ed piece published in the Kyiv Post.

George Tarkhan-Mouravi, a former PASOS board member and the co-director of PASOS member Institute for Policy Studies in Tbilisi, has written a compelling article about the political career of Mikheil Saakashvili, the third President of Georgia and leader of the United National Movement Party.